Thursday, November 13, 2008

Kwiz ProkoFIVE

In the 1980 World Series program, TV and movie stars revealed their World Series heroes. Gerald Ford's was Al Kaline, Cheryl Tiegs liked Kent Tekulve, and Tenille from Captain & Tenille loved it when Bob Welch struck out Reggie Jackson. Who was White Shadow star Ken Howard's choice?

Incorrect--but hey, have you ever heard of the band She Rides? By random chance one of the dudes is our new neighbor. Saw them live for the first time a few minutes ago, actually. I also just found out the Living Room closed. And my online search about that led me to reading about the history of the Casualties--and during that, I hear the email notation sounder. And it was you, one of the people in the small percentage of my "readers" who know what I'm talking about right now.

Great quote by my old drummer about the Causalties: "They're supposed to be these gutter punks but the amount they spend on hair products must cost more than my car."

As for the Casualties, I guess what they spend on hair product is balanced out by what they don't spend on deodrant/soap/toothpaste/etc. It's all about priorities I guess, but damn, the couple times I've met those guys they were pretty crusty. Hell hath no fury like a ripped up, unwashed A Global Threat t-shirt on someone who has forsaken the lost art of bathing.They're basically a dirtier version of the Unseen. And if you haven't heard it, check out Darkbuster on Youtube and their song "I Hate the Unseen." Funny stuff. On the flip side of the Casualties coin, "Tomorrow Belongs to Us" is a pretty kick ass song.

In one of those, it shows the lyrics with "Randolph K of C" but he really says "Norwood VFW." But anyway, that was pretty funny.

She Rides: Hardcore, and to my delight without the cookie monster vocals. And not that fast. They were good, it was fun. Headliner was Wilhelm Scream. Their singer wore a Paul Pierce jersey, while Paul Pierce was on the TVs at the same time.

Listening to She Rides on their myspace page; did you know that their bass player's name is Chan? Fucking weird. I wonder if they named themselves after the Danzig song "She Rides"...they kinda have a little Danzig-y sound to a couple of their songs.

I've seen A Wilhelm Scream. Didn't like 'em on CD, but live they're pretty decent.

Yes! When we hung out with our neighbors for the first time, he mentioned "Chan." And I was like, Wait, did you say Chan? And sure enough, he had, and they've been friends for a while, like me and my Chan--and both Chans are Asian, though my Chan's last name is Chan, while his Chan's first name is Chan.

So, yeah, I got to see his Chan tonight on bass.

AWS: That singer HAS to be a huge Suicidal Tendencies fan. That flipped up hat, and in a band with a somewhat similar sound. (Then again, maybe I only thought of ST because of the hat.) Anyway, they were energetic and fun, Kim enjoyed them a lot. We saw only those two bands, back to back, and I kept thinking, Wow, my old band was almost like the exact midpoint between these two bands.

And yes, they're named after the Danzig song--and now one of their neighbors (us) has a cat named after Danzig, too.

At that Souls show, I thought the band really missed a great opportunity to rock the SOIA "Braveheart Pit," but to do it reallllly slowly. Like separate the crowd to opposites sides of the club, then when the song started, just sort of have everyone lazily walk into each other and just stand there in the middle of the floor and mingle. That would've been hilarious.

...Mickey Mantle for his walk-off HR off of Barney Schultz in Game 3 of the '64 WS...the same moment that turns Billy Crystal, Bob Costas, Mike Francessa, and various other obnoxious celebrity Yankee fans of a certain age into gushing little boys when they're asked about their favorite Series memories growing up.

As for Burgmeier, wow, nice blast from the past. Never pitched in a Fall Classic but was on the '80 All-Star team--I was just looking at him in the AL All-Stars team picture in the '80 WS program. So, no on Burgmeier.

I didn't realize that rule was still in effect this season; for some reason I was thinking that went away with moderated comments.

Anyhoo, if nothing else, I've now managed to guess Willie, Mickey AND the Duke for this quiz. One request: can we at least confirm that the player involved had his World Series hero "moment" during Ken Howard's actual lifetime?